#kigon

something about my experience being a system and my limited advice from that experience

1. Tallest to shortest.

I am terrible with heights. Probably on account of being short. So uh, hopefully these are about what I imagine them to be.

Tequaldynein - 6’5"

Rui - 6’3"

Echo - 6’0" (when standing straight, most of the time he’s hunched over on all fours)

Makaha - 5’8"

Kielton - 5’8"

Apocalypse - 5’8"

Dreizehn - 5’7"

Zephyrus - 5’7"

Tobias - 5’7"

Gavin - 5’6"

Nohiro - 5’6"

Amaretto - 5’6"

Merchante - 5’5" (5’7" with shoes)

Dorian - 5’5" (~6’4" with his ears erect)

Charlemagne - 5’4" (and 3/4, he’s very picky about that)

Schuyler - 5’4"

K.D. 5’3" (though he’s usually hunched in front of a computer)

Agony - 5’3"

Mercury - 5’2" (or sometimes 5’7", it’s complicated.)

Yu - 5’2"

Miette - 5’1"

13. Most successful

Dorian - He has a very lucrative business and loves what he does. Life’s going pretty darn well for him. For now, anyway.

Amaretto - She’s doing exactly what she wants to be doing, although currently experiencing some rather nasty bumps in the road.

Yu - He succeeded in his petition to reopen Kigon Asylum and is the current head, with free reign, and good connections to the Science Department that runs the city. Things are pretty sunny for Yu, and not just because it’s a desert.

21. Most sexual

Tequaldynein - She’s a huge flirt. She’ll flirt with anyone she deems attractive. She’s not picky about gender and not real big on commitment (which is a trait her whole species has).

Miette - Miette is definitely not afraid or ashamed to use her body if that’s what it takes to get what she wants or needs. 

9. Most social.

Tobias - He’s cheerful and enjoys talking to other people. He loves helping people and making friends.

Tequaldynein - Although she comes from an isolationist planet, she loves to interact with people and talk with them.

Miette - She talks to a lot of people to get information out of them and she schmoozes a lot of Dorian’s clients.

23. Best to worst chef.

Nohiro - He has a natural talent for cooking that no one can figure out. He’s one of those guys that can just throw random stuff into a pot without looking and somehow make ambrosia.

Makaha - He’s a very good cook as well. Which is good because if they had to depend on Aolani everyone would starve.

Dreizehn - He’s actually the chef on the Cosmos Legacy and he enjoys cooking. He’s still perfecting his art though.

Merchante - She’s a decent cook and does her best to keep Ambrose from destroying her kitchen.

Zephyrus - He’s a pretty good cook but doesn’t have much to work with most of the time.

Miette - She’s a decent cook; better than Dorian anyway. She usually is designated the cooking assignment.

Kielton - She’s pretty average as far as cooking skill goes. Nothing fancy, but nothing inedible either.

Tobias - He’s a decent enough cook. Not the greatest, but not deadly.

Gavin - Gavin can make a few decent dishes but it otherwise limited to what he can heat up in the microwave.

Schuyler - She can make a few things successfully herself, but mostly depends on the ship’s cook.

Dorian - Dorian can make a few dishes successfully, but otherwise leaves the cooking to Miette.

Yu - Yu can make exactly 5 dishes and nothing else.

Rui - Can make a couple things but not much else. Food was more of a survival thing than a savor thing.

Mercury - Can never make a dish consistently. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not, but it never tastes the same twice.

Amaretto - Will pretty much eat what she has to to survive, and doesn’t know much about cooking. She hired Dreizehn for a reason.

Charlemagne - Knows how cooking works in theory but never actually tried it himself.

Tequaldynein - Mostly unfamiliar with the food of the other worlds so useless at cooking them.

Agony - Can’t cook anymore on account of not being able to hold most of the kitchenware.

K.D. - Would survive off dehydrated store crap if people let him.

Echo - Disqualified. Literally eats bugs.

Apocalypse - Disqualified. Will literally eat anything. Including flowers. And grass.

25. Best public speaker.

Oh my goodness, I don’t think there’s too much actual public speaking that happens hmmm…

Yu - He’s actually very good at making his point despite his weird quirks. I mean he accomplished a lot to get where he is now, head of an asylum where he torments and experiments on the people instead of treating them. He must have some skill with public speaking.

Amaretto - Although she can be blunt and speak without thinking at times, there are very few things that make her nervous, and crowds aren’t one of them.

3. Oldest to youngest

Dorian – 30, although he’s a young-looking guy.

Merchante – 29, although it’s rude to ask a lady her age don’t you know.

Kielton – 28, though most days she feels older.

Yu – 28, he doesn’t much act like it though.

Zephyrus – 28, and still alive so doing pretty good.

Rui – ~27, he didn’t grow up in a place that kept time well, so this is probably right. Maybe.

K.D. – 26, although he looks younger and acts older.

Amaretto – ~25, she didn’t exactly grow up with birthdays either so this is probably close at least.   

Tequaldynein – ~25, she’s an alien. She’s 21 star cycles, which is probably close to 25 years of age.

Miette – 24, though is good at looking even younger at times.

Makaha – 23, though he has a bit of a baby face.

Schuyler – 23, she’s young for her rank; she lied about her age to join the army.

Tobias – 22, and at times more mature than some of his companions.

Gavin – 22, though sometimes he acts 40.

Mercury – 20, most of the time he looks like he’s 15, much to his chagrin.

Nohiro – 18, and could not care less.

Charlemagne – 17, though he often acts 12. Was planning to take over his father’s company when he came of age but so much for that.

Agony – 17, though she doesn’t really advertise information about herself.

Dreizhen – 4, although he looks like he’s in his early twenties, he is in fact a cybernetic being that was created only about 4 years ago.

Pocky – disqualified, is actually sort of 4 people (of all different ages) that then became one person. 

Echo – disqualified, changed so much physically and mentally from who he once was that age can’t be gauged the same way.

10. Most likable

Makaha – he’s a very nice guy. It’s hard to dislike him, even if you’re making a point of trying to.

Tobias – his optimism is infectious and he’s nice to pretty much everyone. He’s pretty difficult to genuinely dislike.

Zephyrus – He’s always kind and calm and generally has a soothing presence so he’s generally well-liked by everyone that’s met him.

20. Most likely to kill someone

I’m going to use “likely” as a keyword here.

Yu – although he tends to like to keep people around as projects and psychologically torment them, he’s got no qualms with killing them, or sending them off to be experimented on elsewhere and die (thus being indirectly responsible for their deaths)

Schuyler – She’s a soldier and works directly under a mentally unstable captain. Combat happens and she kills who she needs to.

6. Most athletic to least. Well, this is something I don’t think about.

Amaretto - Retto is excellent shape. She’s very active.

Schuyler - Sky is soldier. She’s young for her rank so she makes an extra effort to stay in shape, even though she’s not on the front lines.

Rui - Rui’s a pretty active guy and gets in a lot of fights. He’s also exceptionally healthy.

Tequaldynein - She didn’t have much cause for running on her home planet. But she’s an excellent climber.

Merchante - She lives a pretty active lifestyle and sort of stays in shape because of that.

Gavin - He’s in surprisingly good shape for someone who sits behind a shop desk all day. But he’s under constant threat so he pretty much has to maintain the ability to run away.

Apocalypse - He’s really active. He’s always moving around and doing all kind of crazy shit.

Echo - Echo is pretty active and finds creative places  to hunt bugs and sleep.

Nohiro - Nohiro is always getting into fights. That’s sort of athletic?

Makaha - Makaha is always trying to stop fights and therefore often in the middle of them.

Tobias - Though he relies mostly on his bombs, Tobias knows his way around a fight and keeps in enough shape for that.

Miette - She’s in surprisingly good shape for someone who spends most of her time not doing much on a spaceship. Being from a planet that’s mostly water, she loves to swim when she gets the chance.

Dorian - Although he’s not particularly athletic, he does know how to defend himself well.

Mercury - Although he’s not particularly athletic, he does get a workout occasionally running away from monsters.

Agony - She’s not athletic either, and gets most of hers out of the way when running away from monsters too.

Charlemagne - He’s not athletic, but has been getting a workout while put to work on the Cosmos Legacy.

Kielton - She’s not athletic at all, but travels quite a bit.

Zephyrus - He’s not athletic but does what he must.

Yu - He’s not athletic at all and wreaks havoc while pretty stationary.

K.D. - He’s way not athletic. The farthest he usually walks in a day is across the house.

Dreizehn - Disqualified for having robot parts.

11. Most optimistic

Tobias - Hands down. He’s so optimistic, he drives his friends nuts.

Makaha - This guy is a bundle of cheer and niceness and generally looks on the bright side.

Zephyrus - He’s a pretty positive guy. Tries to keep his family positive. 

19. Most likely to get married and have children

Mercury - He can be quite domestic actually. He’d probably have to adopt though.

Kielton - She wanted to anyway. If Bo ever comes back it may still happen.

I actually have a list question. I’ll try to remember them all. Sorry ahead of time character I inevitably forget.

I apologize to you guys for having to put up with such a long list.

5. Kindest to Rudest. 

Makaha - Makaha’s the kind of guy that makes friends with squirrels and tries to reason with people and make friends with them while they punch him repeatedly in the face. He’s kind to the point of a death wish.

Tobias - Tobias is always nice to everyone he meets, optimistic to a fault, and continues to be friendly to people that repeatedly insult him. His hobby happens to be making things explode, but it’s almost never out of malice.

Zephyrus - Zephyr is a kindly man who function as almost a mother-figure for many people in his story. He’s very nurturing and kind, but knows when to be firm if it’s for the best. 

Echo - Echo’s polite in the sense that he isn’t the brightest. His wants and needs usually extend to eating the bugs in the caves he lives in and keeping an eye on his family. He’s not really able to communicate by normal means anymore so it’s just generally accepted that he probably isn’t thinking mean things about you.

Agony - Agony is nice mostly because she’s nervous and is terrified of confrontation. She conceals her gender and does her best to hide her defects under layers of clothes and does her best to stay out of everyone’s way.

Dreizehn - Dreizehn is practical to a fault. He’s usually polite but can come off as blunt, and always follows his superiors orders without qualms, even if that’s shooting someone in the face.

Tequaldynein - She’s pretty nice to everyone she meets, and is a notorious flirt. But she has no problem standing up for herself and punching people she feel deserve it. And while she’s friendly, she doesn’t have the most experience interacting with humans, and can come off as rude at times.

Gavin - Gavin is always polite to people who come into his store unless they start to bother him. After that he’s mostly indifferent. He’s not really in the habit of making or keeping friends.

K.D. - K.D. is mostly nice to his teammates but has a dry personality that can come off as distant.

Merchante - She’s kind for the most part, but can be kind of stubborn and brash at times. However no matter how frustrated she gets with her partner, she always forgives him.

Kielton - As a doctor, Kielton has a high respect for life. Her heart is in the right place, and she generally wants to help people, however she can be kind of blunt and rude about it at times.

Amaretto - Amaretto is generally a good person, and she values her crew above her own life. However she doesn’t much care if she has to insult, beat, or kill other people to get what she or her crew needs. Her first mate is the smoother of the two of them and help keeps her from boiling over too much.

Rui - Rui is a good leader, and cares about his team, but he also believes for the most part, they can take care of their own shit, so he doesn’t put up with much. He has a tendency to come of as brusque.

Mercury - Mercury, also called Mary much to his ire, has his heart in the right place, but can occasionally be selfish and can often be hotheaded. 

Charlie - Charlie hasn’t really found his place in the world and basically takes that out on people around him at times. He is extremely ill-tempered and has a habit of picking fights he can’t win. He’s a bit racist, but is learning to get over that.

Nohiro - Nohiro is extremely ill-tempered, rude, doesn’t much give a shit about what anything thinks about him. He does usually know right from wrong, although he usually has a roundabout and mean way of doing the right thing.

Schuyler - She’s generally nice and polite but has a warped sense of right and wrong and an unhealthy hero-worship of an unstable man.

Miette - Miette is nearly always nice and polite to everyone, but since it’s all for the greater glory of Dorian, it’s not really her true self as much as it is a persona she puts on. However she’s very devoted to Dorian.

Dorian - Dorian is often an ass on purpose and generally makes trouble for his own amusement. He doesn’t always return even Miette’s kindness to her, although he genuinely cares more for her.

Yu- Yu is always cheerful but generally a terrible person who does really awful things to people and is more than happy to do so.

Apocalypse - Pocky is disqualified for kind of beign four people.

8. Most creative

Charlie - Charlie loves to make new things, from useless nick-knacks to important additions to weapon technology. He likes to have a notebook on hand to sketch out new ideas and blueprints

K.D. - K.D. is also an inventor and is always trying to think of new ways he can improve his team’s tech.

Tobias - Tobias likes to invent bombs. This is sometimes a Not Good hobby.

17. Most like(ly) to save someone in a burning building

Makaha - He values others over himself. He also has the ability to manipulate fire, so that helps.

Tobias - He can be rather reckless in his attempts to do the right thing. He makes bombs for goodness sake.

Rui - Rui’d assess the situation before trying at least.

22. Most mentally stable.

Kielton - She’s a realist and has experienced a lot of pain in her life, but it’s given her experience and the ability to compartmentalize.

Amaretto - Although reckless at times, she at least knows when she needs to ask her second for help, and is generally a stable and dependable person.

Sorry this took so long, hit my lunch hour.

I thought about it and decided only to use original characters from original stories, because that’s where actual world building comes in.

7. Most intelligent. This doesn’t say “to least" so I guess I’ll just list the top 3.

K.D. - K.D. is from a city in a middle of a desert. The city is run by a corrupted government that regularly serves up citizens to serve as biological experiments for the scientists that really run the city. K.D. was recruited to a team of people (of which there are 5 total, including him) who are trying to stop this corruption (however with 5 people, it’s not the most effective movement). K.D. is in charge of all of the tech and intelligence for the group. He makes most of the tech, runs it, and gathers nearly all of the information for the group, and all from their humble little base. Which he hasn’t left since joining. It’s worth mentioning that he’s extremely paranoid, and even his teammates, who’ve known him for years, have no idea what “K.D." stands for.

Dorian - Dorian’s from the Cosmos Legacy story. He lives on his spaceship with his assistant, Miette. He’s something of an information broker. Basically, he’s just super nosy. He loves knowing what everyone’s up to, and loves lording that over other people and making money off of it. He never takes sides in skirmishes, just loves to see how they play out. He’s a bit of a wild card, but he’s so far been smart enough to avoid serious harm.

Charlemagne - Charlemagne Charlie is also from the Cosmos Legacy story. He’s an extremely intelligent heir to a massive corporation on an extremely militaristic planet. He worked hard to learn everything he could about mechanical and technical engineering growing up to impress his dad, but it didn’t quite go as planned. When his dad was murdered by a Veer (an alien race that his planet is at war with) he swore vengeance, but screwed that up from the get go. He has a passion and talent for invention, but isn’t higher on the list because he’s still a hot-tempered kid who doesn’t think things through enough.

14. Most fashionable. Boy am I terrible judge of fashion.

Charlie - What can I say? He grew up rich and spoiled and tries to be as meticulous as he can about his appearance, even on a pirate vessel. Charlie believes in looking his best at all times, even while working.

Miette - Miette, as mentioned above, is from the Cosmos Legacy story and is Dorian’s assistant. Part of her role is distraction, sort of like the pretty assistant magicians will have. It also helps a lot of people be a bit… looser with their information if she’s dolled up. As such, she’s always very aware of how she looks.

Merchante - Merchante is from an as yet unnamed story. She’s the captain of a 2-man crew (herself included in that) on a spaceship. She’s both fashionable and practical in her wear, and always tries to look her best and professional. Particularly since her partner doesn’t try very hard at all.

16. Most confident.

Amaretto - Amaretto is the captain of the Cosmos Legacy in the story named after it. She’s very sure of herself and her crew and general has no qualms walking around like she owns the place. She takes her role a captain very seriously and always looks cool and in control for her crew, and for the most part, she usually is.

Tequaldynein - Tequaldynein is the newest member of the Cosmos Legacy crew. She’s an alien from a mostly isolationist planet that always wanted to see the stars. So she left and became a pilot. She’s bold in her words and actions and knows herself and her abilities well enough that she has an inherent and steadfast confident air about her.

Tobias - Tobias is from the same story as K.D. He’s the group’s resident bomb expert and technician, as well as optimist. His confidence and optimism often go hand and hand. He tends to drive his teammates to madness with his ability to find the good in any situation, and sometimes seem oblivious to reality in the process.